You’ve got a new website you’re coming out with as well, Bill James online. What will be the nature of that site—a think tank for research analysis, a blog, a reference site, something else? Will you be the only contributor or will there be others?

The basic idea for the site is that I wanted to have a place where I could communicate directly with my readers, to publish articles and get feedback from the audience in real time. It isn’t a blog, as I understand the term, because I think blogs are essentially opinion-driven, as opposed to research-driven. Not trying to limit what you can do in a blog; I’m sure there are blogs of all types. Anyway, what I do is, I find a question, I do research, I write it up, which is what I have always done; I don’t really traffic in opinion very much. I do write some “columns,” as opposed to articles, and columns are opinion pieces.

But a site, to be most useful to a reader, to really become a part of the reader’s life, needs something new all the time, something happening every day. To create that “something happening all the time,” we have created a lot of “information packages” that of course will be automatically updated.

You've moved to Boston for the Red Sox job. How does life there compare to life in Kansas? Do you expect to move back to there or stay in your new home?

The biggest difference is that there are many more Dunkin' Donuts out here; otherwise everything is about the same. We'll be moving back to Kansas in August.

That is freaking hilarious. The first time I went to NJ and then over to NYC that was the running joke with me and my coworkers. Every time you turned around, another Dunkin Donuts. Spoken like a true mid-westerner.

You've moved to Boston for the Red Sox job. How does life there compare to life in Kansas? Do you expect to move back to there or stay in your new home?

The biggest difference is that there are many more Dunkin' Donuts out here; otherwise everything is about the same. We'll be moving back to Kansas in August.

That is freaking hilarious. The first time I went to NJ and then over to NYC that was the running joke with me and my coworkers. Every time you turned around, another Dunkin Donuts. Spoken like a true mid-westerner.

Yeah, seriously, that's no joke. There are at least 4 or 5 in my town, and I live in a very small suburb in southern CT. Three of them are on the same stretch of road. It's insane.

If you ever have the chance to get up to Canada, check out the Tim Horton's coffee shops. They are literally everywhere. I was in London, Ontario and at one intersection, there was a Tim Horton's on 2 of the 4 corners.

gatorgreenwell wrote:If you ever have the chance to get up to Canada, check out the Tim Horton's coffee shops. They are literally everywhere. I was in London, Ontario and at one intersection, there was a Tim Horton's on 2 of the 4 corners.